USGS records earthquake near Pecos

Published 5:18 pm, Wednesday, April 19, 2017

A 2.6 magnitude earthquake took place 36 kilometers south of Pecos, according to the USGS.

A 2.6 magnitude earthquake took place 36 kilometers south of Pecos, according to the USGS.

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USGS records earthquake near Pecos

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The 10th earthquake in the last 10 months was recorded Wednesday in Reeves County, according to the U.S. Geological Society.

The 2.6 magnitude earthquake took place 36 kilometers south of Pecos, according to the USGS.

That was the 10th quake in the last 10 months, according to earthquake track.com, which shows a 2.9-magnitude quake 10 days ago and a 2.5-magnitude quake last month. The strongest quake in the last 10 months had a magnitude of 3.6, according to the website.

According to Upseis, an educational site for seismologists, a quake with a magnitude of 2.5 to 5.4 is “often felt, but only causes minor damage.” There are about 30,000 each year, according to the site.